Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records

by Jan Jelinek

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ericsublett One of my personal favorite records of all time. For any jazz, electronic, or ambient fan, this album is an absolute must in your library Favorite track: Them, Their.

magoski You have to put yourself in a place
where the river can best run through you
on it
s jour
ney
It’s not courage that pulls you, it’s cowardice. And it’s not Cowardice that pushes you . it’s Courage. The two work together because the two are forever entwined.
Wonder when?
Ask not why but how Favorite track: Poren.

La Embajada Cereza Turn the treble alllllll the way up. 10/10 Favorite track: Poren.

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Includes Audio Liner Notes (The Village Vanguard) + 2 Bonus Titles ("Tendency" EP B-Sides, Scape 2000)

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1.	Moiré (Piano & Organ) 06:54	lyrics	buy track
Written by Jan Jelinek, produced by Jan Jelinek, recorded 2000, Berlin. Mastering by Stefan Betke and Rashad Becker. Graphic design by Jens Reitemeyer.
2.	Rock In The Video Age 08:03	info	buy track
3.	They, Them 07:20	info	buy track
4.	Them, Their 05:06	info	buy track
5.	Tendency 07:21	info	buy track
6.	Moiré (Strings) 06:25	info	buy track
7.	Do Dekor 05:34	info	buy track
8.	Drift 05:09	info	buy track
9.	Moiré (Guitar & Horns) 06:37	info	buy track
10.	Poren 06:48	info	buy track
11.	Audio Liner Notes (The Village Vanguard) 04:43	info	buy track

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Faitiche is delighted to present a long-lost vinyl album: for the last 14 years, Jan Jelinek's Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records, originally released in 2001 on ~scape, existed only as a download. Now the album is available again on vinyl, as a double LP with two bonus tracks (B-sides from the Tendency EP, 2000).

What the press said about Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records:

“Don’t be misled by the title, though for there isn’t a finger-snapping rhythm c bebop lead anywhere on the album. Instead, Jelinek chooses to explore the visual effect moiré - two shifting patterns creating an implied third dimension - in the audio realm.” (Alternative Press)

“The title acts as explanation for the studio technique that provided the basis for this album, snippets of other people’s arrangements deconstructed through a sampler into loops and then splashed onto an audio canvas.” (ATM)

“Jelinek’s sound evolved out of his dislike for (and inability to play) keyboards.”
(RPM)

“Jelinek has abstracted his sources beyond recognition, looping his millisecond samples into flickering patterns of sonic moiré laid atop a dub Techno framework. (...) Jelinek might as well have sampled a horn player’s hissing intake of breath – it would have been ‘jazz’ enough for his purposes.“
(The Wire)

“It’s a perfect inversion of conventional music, a sonic negative. Everything that would typically be foreground is moved back or pushed off the screen altogether, and the flecks of sonic debris that would normally be covered by other sounds are left to carry the melody and rhythm.”
(Pitchfork)

“All you need to know is that these onomatopoeic non-specific songs (...) are warm, paradisical creations”.
(NME)

“Listen carefully and you’ll hear textures slowly unfolding and mutating. Presuming you’ve not fallen asleep of course.”
(iDJ)

“At times, it’s all a bit dripping tap Japanese water torture; so sedentary it drowns in its own motionlessness”
(DJ)

“Loop Finding Jazz Records' is a genuine modern classic whose re-release is anything but a cynical mortgage repayment exercise. Consider this a second chance, then pretend you had it all along.”
(Boomkat)

PS:

“I’ve been fortunate enough to see Jan Jelinek live once, at Tonic NYC (...). Wearing a black and white striped shirt, he looked like a nihilistic Charlie Brown.”
(beachsloth)

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released April 28, 2017

Written by Jan Jelinek, produced by Jan Jelinek, recorded in 2000, Berlin. Mastering by Stefan Betke and Rashad Becker. Graphic design by Jens Reitemeyer

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